Machine for printing measurements on pieces of material.



P. SPERLING.

MACHINE FOR PRINTING MEASUREMENTS 0N PIECES OF MATERIAL.

APPLIUATION FILED JAN. 15, 1006.

PATENT-ED Nov. 19, 1907.

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MACHINE FORPRINTING MEASUREMENTS 0N PIECES OF MATERIAL. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 15, 1906.

PATENTED NOV. 19, 1907.

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PETER SPERLING, OF NEUNKIRGHEN, GERMANY.

MACHINE FOR PRINTING MEASUREMENTS ON PIECES OF MATERIAL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 19, 1907.

Application filed January 15,1906. Serial No. 296.157.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PETER SrEnLiNo, a citizen of the German Empire, and resident of Neunkirchen, Germany, have invented new and useful Improvements in hilachines for Printing Measurements on Pieces oi Material, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines in which pieces of cloth, fabric or other material are measured by being passed between a measuring-drum and a feedinga'oller, the measurements being at the same time printed on the material. The construction of such machines is improved by having an arrangement for printing the suin. ol' the units measured.

In the accompanying drawings the improved machine is shown in Figure 1 in an end view and in Fig. 2 in a front view. Fig. 3 shows, on a larger scale, the end of the measuring-drum, which is provided with the printing-device. Fig. 4 represents in front View the guide-disk for actuating the sumprinting-device.

The material to be measured and printed is passed, in the well known manner, between the feeding-roller b and the measuringdrum a. The measuring-drum a is furnished on the left-hand side with a ring of types (2 for printing the units of measurement on the fabric. This ring is, for example, provided with the types from 1 to 99, indicating centimeters, and has an aperture (Z at the place of the 100. Through this aperture (1 pass succcssively the types f of a type-chain g for printing the sums of the centimeters. The type-chain g is guided over a sprocket-wheel h arranged in the aperture (Z, and over a guideroller i located at a suitable place inside the measuring-drum a and adapted to be adjusted by means of a screw-rod 76 from outside the drum for tightening the type-chain.

On the axle of sprocket-wheel h a ratchetwheel I and a toothed-wheel m are mounted. A detent p fixed to the front end of a lever q engages with toothed-wheel m and a springinfluenced pawl n, pivoted in the free end of a lever 0, engages with ratchet-wheel Z. The levers 0 and q are pivoted in a fork T, which is fixed to the axle of the measuring-drum a. The other ends of the levers 0 and q are guided in grooves s and tof a guide-disk a which is fixed to the frame of the machine. The groove 8 is eccentric and the groove t is composed of two halves of di'l'l'erent diameter which are connected by the inclines y, z.

The machine operates as 'lollows:When the measuring-dmm a is rotated the types 1 to 99 are printed on the edge ot'the material passed between drum a and roller 1). lVhen the first revolution of the drum is terminated the first type f of type-chain g is printed through aperture (1. The levers 0 and q participate in the rotation of drum a, sliding with their outer ends in the grooves s and t of guide-disk u. The ratchet-lever 0 is so pivoted that in consequence of the eccentricity of groove s while the end of said ratchet lever passes through part to to a: of said groove, the ratchet n is pulled out of engagement with ratchet-wheel Z and moved over the same for the length of one tooth, detent-lever q being kept during that time in engagement with toothed-wheel m. When the end of the detent-lever q reaches the incline 2 the lever is swung so that the detent p is pulled out of engagement with toothed-wheel m and the sprocket-wheel is now free, to follow the movement of ratchet-Wheel I, which is rotated for one tooth by lever 0, traveling through the second part of groove 8. Thus the type-chain g is moved for the space of one type f. The incline y of groove t returns the detent-lever to its position for locking the toothed-wheel m.

The inking-device 1) may be of any suitable construction.

The printing-device may be arranged at either end of drum a, or one printing-device may be provided at each end of the drum, in which case the types of the two printing devices may be arranged in opposite direction.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention, I declare that what I claim as my invention and desire to-secure by Letters Patent, is

An improved machine for printing measurements on pieces of cloth or other material, comprising in combination with the sprocket-v wheel tor the type-chain for the hundred types, a toothed-wheel mounted on the axle of the sprocket-wheel, a ratchet-wheel mounted on the axle of the sprocket-wheel, a detent-lever engaging with the toothedwheel, a pawl-lever engaging with the ratchetwheel, a fork fixed to the axle of the measuring-drum, serving as pivot for the levers, a disk fixed to the frame of the machine provided on its inner surface with an eccentric guide-groove for the end of the pawl-lever In Witness whereof I have hereunto set myand wfvith an eccentric guidilegroove for the hand in presence of two Witnesses.

end 0 the detent-lever, said atter groove be- T ing composed of two halves of different di- PETER SPERLI1\G ameter, connected by inclines, substantially Witnesses:

as described and shown and for the purpose THEODOR MI'JLLER,

set forth. WALTER HAUSING. 

